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Nearly 50 students killed at Nigerian school teaching 'western curriculum' after suicide bomber in uniform enters assembly .

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Suicide bomb at all-boys school in northern Nigeria kills 48 A reported 79 injured after bomb went off during morning assembly Suicide bomber dressed in school uniform entered schoolyard  Police believe terror organisation Boko Haram is responsible Massacre took place one day after Boko Haram leader rejected peace talks. A terrorist attack on an all-boys school in northen Nigeria killed 48 students and teachers and injured 79 after a suicide bomber detonated during morning assembly. The perpetrator was dressed in a school uniform, and entered the schoolyard in Potiskum, Yobe state, on Monday morning before carrying out the attack among the students. Local police believe Boko Haram is responsible for the attack on the secondary school, which follows a 'western curriculum'.  +5 Bomb: At least 48 teenagers died, and 79 were injured, after a suicide bomber dressed in school uniform detonated during morning assembly at a secondary school in Yobe...

ROOT COURSES OF INSURGENCE IN THE NORTHERN NIGERIA

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EDUCATION “ On Health and Education “the level of immunization of Children against dangerous childhood diseases, in the South-East is 44.6% immunization coverage, but the North-West has 3.7% and the North-East 3.6%.” “If you take the education of the girl-child as indicator, you see similar pattern of inequality with the South-East having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-Wes having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-South 75%, while the North-East 20% and North West 25%." Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations in his address lamented the poverty level of the North using grim statistics. AS many as 93% of female children across northern Nigeria are being denied access to secondary school education according to recent statistics just revealed the situation would be detrimental to the economy. cited the instance of Jigawa State, where school completion rate among female pupils is as low as 7% as an ...